Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
The Dig
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The War on Terror Is Absent From American Consciousness
The figure of the traumatized soldier and veteran is very present to the public. It displaces all other discussion, I think, when it's tethered to the call that you must support the troops. The argument in attentiveness plays into both the focus on the soldier and a kind of rhetoric about civilian responsibility towards the soldier.
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